"Life is Short"

You hear this being said so often that it doesn't really even register any more. I sit here typing this at 52yrs old thinking where the hell did the time go? Seems like the kids were little and I was 29 just a few years ago. Summer breaks from school seemed like an eternity when I was a kid. Now I buy Christmas gifts and it seems a month later I buy them again because another year has passed. Life TRULY is short!

I called the ambulance for a 23yr old young man at my work today. He had a heart attack in front of all of us. I just got word that he survived. It was a scary and eye-opening reminder that Life can indeed be very fragile and short.

Kiss the wife, the kids, the grandkids if you have them. Make peace when you can and be thankful you are reading this. Someone had plans yesterday that is no longer here to fulfill them today.

I'll close by saying this---I'm gonna try to remember and focus on the fact that yes life is short BUT more importantly...LIFE IS SWEET!

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Such is life.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Such is life.

True 12131

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This message has been edited. Last edited by: FLKev,

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

Ferris Bueller

Wherever you go, there you are.

Just wait... I got a dose of that reality, "life is short" just over 4 years ago when they wheeled me into the ER and before I even got to a room a guy had cut all my clothes off and started sticking things on me and in me....

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Originally posted by FLKev:
"Life is Short"
... Someone had plans yesterday that is no longer here to fulfill them today.

That is worth re-reading.

Im trying really hard not to let good things pass without noticing, and getting caught in the rat race.

My daughter thinks I'm the best(right now). I'm gonna savor that today.

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Originally posted by Blume9mm:
Just wait... I got a dose of that reality, "life is short" just over 4 years ago when they wheeled me into the ER and before I even got to a room a guy had cut all my clothes off and started sticking things on me and in me....

Are you sure they didn't wheel you into the drag show rather than the ER?

A very good friend of mine died of a heart attack last week. He was 52. Died before the paramedics arrived.

I am waiting on some news from my doctor. Could be pretty shitty news.

Life is short, and seems shorter the older you get. Six months. You can put up the Christmas lights, but you can’t take them down…

This has had me thinking, if days were money, and you had 6 months left. $1.80 in your bank account. Each day costs you a penny, and when they’re gone, so are you.

How will you spend that next cent?

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Originally posted by Beancooker:
A very good friend of mine died of a heart attack last week. He was 52. Died before the paramedics arrived.

I am waiting on some news from my doctor. Could be pretty shitty news.

Life is short, and seems shorter the older you get. Six months. You can put up the Christmas lights, but you can’t take them down…

This has had me thinking, if days were money, and you had 6 months left. $1.80 in your bank account. Each day costs you a penny, and when they’re gone, so are you.

How will you spend that next cent?

With family and friends. I have some I need to reconnect with. It's been too long.
Need to go shooting soon. Get that widget installed in the racecar.

Same thing happened to a close friend of mine. Cardiac arrest. Funeral is Tuesday. My buddy was only 42, he had a known condition. Still it's fucking terrible.

Take care of yourself guys!

I try my best to not SAVE LIFE for later. The wife and I have great life insurance plans. When we are gone the kids will get someone else's money. Our money will be used having experiences with them and ourselves and traveling and loving living. We save and we both have retirement funds set aside. I'm not talking about those $$$ I'm talking about the "Experience $$$" I refuse to be the guy that says I'm gonna do this or that when I retire and do nothing until then. You may never get to retire. My dreams will not die on the vine.

There two types of folks...Those that will pay for a great experience to build memories so they value it and they invest in it. The other type are those that just can't treat themselves well and never venture 30 miles from where they are. They would rather buy another stupid thing with any excess funds they have because they've never learned to treat themselves to an experience that will build lifelong memories. These folks just can't see how spending money and not having something tangible is smart or worthwhile.

When I was 22yrs old. I met a great man that was my co-worker and he became a mentor of mine. I had just started my career. He would tell me every couple months "Spend $10k on a vacation Kevin" I would laugh and say hell nah Carl and walk away. The 3rd year I worked there I spent $10k on a 21 day trip to Africa. I experienced things that changed me forever. When I came back Carl told me. "That was the worst trip you will ever have in your life now" You will treat yourself that way for the rest of your life. You set a standard for yourself that you deserve and now you have reason to save and earn more trips like this. You will know this better when you are my age.

He was right! My wife and I take a min of 3 trips a year and have for over 15yrs. We have done 5 or 6 trips on some years. It's almost always International travel and for at least 6 days and a max of 21 days. It's our addiction. We have grown so much by doing this and made some memories that are worth more than any possessions we have. Best thing I ever did was learn to reward myself while I was young and learn to invest in experiences and exposing myself to the entire world.

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Originally posted by FLKev:
I try my best to not SAVE LIFE for later. The wife and I have great life insurance plans. When we are gone the kids will get someone else's money. Our money will be used having experiences with them and ourselves and traveling and loving living.

Errol Flynn, one of the most notorious partiers in Hollywood history, once said this: "Any man who dies with more than $10,000 to his name is a failure.".

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"
~John Lennon

Having experienced war, I came to realize that life can be taken away very quickly. I have also come to realize that many people take life for granted.

The statement I heard goes, "Life is short... and then you die."

“God’s Will”

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
The statement I heard goes, "Life is a bitch... and then you die."

Fixed that for you That’s the way I heard it when I was very young.

I thank God, every single day, multiple times, for every single day, for every single meal, for everything. Not a day goes by, ever, without my gratitude being expressed in prayer.

I traveled for work, for years. And if there is one thing on God’s green Earth that I despise as much as moving it’s traveling. I can only stomach it once a year and for one specific place and even then dealing with tourists takes all I can muster. So if travel is your thing, cool, but it’s not everyone’s jam. Each person is going to have something vastly different they love, they heart. Me, that’s riding, driving, piloting things that are fast, and take skill. They aren’t a bull but they are a bull if that makes sense. And it takes money and a lot of work to make it happen and keep happening. And a lot of training, clean eating, hours in the gym every week. I may add a shiny new thing to my fleet but it’s not for image, not for taking photos, etc. It’s for use. I’m so into what I’m doing and how I live my life I even purchased land in a mountain range that has some of the best pavement to ride in the nation and one of the best lakes there is. All in my backyard so things I love the most will be just minutes away, no traveling required. And it’s going to take a hell of a lot more work to make this happen, to get a metal building built, finished out, etc. Passion, dedication, being extremely frugal on things that others blow a lot of $ on. And I pray to God every day for this to happen as well.

For me seeing “the light” came as a young kid. I had two near death experiences. I almost drown in the Gulf. I can still remember being sucked down, pulled down and fighting through it. God stepped in and said not today. I fought with everything I had, made it to the surface, breathed in all the air I could only to go back under the water and it was a heavyweight championship fight as I was way out, at least a half mile. Then another incident getting shot at with a revolver where you could feel the pressure off the bullet whizzing by your ears like it was LFE in a theater. Then I had to bury my best friend as an adult many years later, guy was like a brother to me, in 2008. Each one of these things taught me to chase your dreams or your passions in life, don’t worry about fitting in or doing what others do. Do you no matter how much bullshit people fling at you for doing so as they will. I do watch people in the Matrix every single day. I see them at the grocery store, the gym, etc, and just smh. I can’t imagine getting to old age, looking back, and having regret, that you spent your entire life on the sofa watching bs commercial TV programming, surfing on a phone, your whole life spent on image, society, fitting in, etc, instead of living your life the way you want. I’m chasing it every day, full send after what I want, doing the things I want and hitting the esc key on everything I don’t.

Thankfully I have a small crew of people that understand this. A close friend, who lived in TX, that I’ve known most of my life, said the hell with this one day. He had his own business and just sold it, with most of his stuff and moved to an island in the Pacific where he is now a glorified janitor. He doesn’t travel, has to live life very frugal, watching every penny spent like a hawk, because he lives in an expensive place. Others look down on his vocation and station but not me. That guy’s thing is surfing, and he’s on the break, every morning there is swell, at the crack of dawn surfing doing his favorite thing in life and putting up with whatever bullshit he has to, to make that happen day in and day out. In the afternoons he’s at the skate park there, in the bowl, and he’s pushing 60 years old now. He lives in one of the most beautiful places on the planet as well. He is certainly not doing it wrong.

A couple of sayings I really like and practice. One is Tomorrow is Promised to No One. Another is you’ll never see a hearse towing a U Haul trailer. And my favorite is no one makes it out of this alive so act accordingly. Send it, and send it with everything you got because this trip, this life, is a one way ticket only. Figure out what you want to do the most and do it. You’ll have naysayers all around telling you should be doing x or y instead. Ignore them. I’ve been ignoring them my entire life. And I’m living for the day where instead of checking PSI and suiting up in the suburb, getting ready for a 30 minute commute to the country, I’m suiting up in my metal building, in the mountains and commuting through the mountains to get to that first turn. I’ll thank God for it when it happens but I’ll also be flipping the bird at the naysayers. And even if I fail at making this happen, I will die trying to make it happen.